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dogs and others more of the grotesque dog of Fo style. One very large dog 

 is in case 23 and the assigned date of this piece is 1662-1722. 



In the small collection got together by the museum there is very little 

 in the dog line. A white china dog with a pointed muzzle and tail curled 

 over the back and eyes coloured yellow; another with a square muzzle and 

 high forehead, and a white puppy, with a large round head. The latter is 

 the only piece that is dated and that is put at 1800. Of course there are 

 plenty of the grotesque "dogs of Fo" and it is hard at times to decide 

 whether some little piece is a recognisable dog or not, but those we have 

 specially mentioned are dogs beyond a doubt. 



Although the circle of information was very limited the Pekinese dogs, 

 both rough and smooth, were known in England nearly fifty years ago, 

 specimens of both having been taken to that country from the looting of 

 the Imperial summer palaces in Pekin. Mrs. Lilburn MacEwen in a 

 sketch of the breed published in 1904 states that they were known at the 

 court of Henri III and are depicted in the painting of the royal pets in a 

 picture attributed to Jacopo de Empoli, but it would require a very vivid 

 imagination to call any of the dogs on this picture a Pekinese. The picture 

 was later reproduced in Illustrated Kennel News and shows a large number 

 of small dogs decorated with ribbons and with pierced ears in which rosettes 

 are tied. Mrs. MacEwen also states that Pekinese came to the court of 

 Charles II but gives no absolute data in support of the statement. It is 

 history, however, that four small Pekinese were found in the summer palace 

 near Pekin in October 1860, one of which aptly named Looty was brought 

 to England and presented to Queen Victoria by Lieutenant Dunne. This 

 dog was illustrated in the London Illustrated News, from a drawing by 

 Harrison Weir, dated 1861. The other three dogs were commandered by 

 Admiral John Hay and eventually found their way to Goodwood Castle as 

 the property of the Duke of Gordon and Lord John Hay. It is from these 

 dogs that the English get their "Goodwood" line of Pekinese. Subse- 

 quently stolen dogs were sent to England and at the more recent taking of 

 Pekin, a large number comparatively speaking, were secured and sent there. 



The history of the Pekinese in America is rather more indefinite as to 

 the earliest importations, but so far we have not been able to antedate 

 anything prior to Mrs. Eva B. Guyer's obtaining one in 1898. This lady 

 resides in Philadelphia and has always kept them since that time, getting 

 more from the same relative who got her first one. We are aware that 



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